Then I guess I will need to let Postfix do the delivery so it can be aware of what users exist and not, to be sure it will do all rejections when the SMTP MX connection is still up to let it reject back over that connection. So Dovecot would just be the IMAP daemon, and some webmail program used on top of that.
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Joseph Yee <joseph....@gmail.com> wrote: > Mail client interacts with MTA (sendmail, postfix, exim, etc) and then > MTA 'calls' the delivery agent (LDA, some MTA, etc) to deliver the > mail to mailboxes. Common mail clients do not interact with delivery > agent directly, even it's inbound. So yes, you need MTA for inbound > mail. > > HTH > Joseph > > On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 7:11 AM, Phil Howard <ka9...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I saw something in the documentation called LDA that looked like it was > > accepting some kind of connection and delivering mail into mailboxes. > > > > On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 4:09 AM, Veiko Kukk <veiko.k...@ekp.ee> wrote: > > > >> Phil Howard wrote: > >> > >>> Does Dovecot really need a separate MTA for inbound mail? > >>> > >> > >> Why do you thing it might need? > >> > >> > >> Or can it receive > >>> SMTP directly if there is no forwarding to do? What about spam/virus > >>> filtering in that case? > >>> > >> > >> Dovecot has nothing to do with smtp. You need MTA like postfix or exim > to > >> deliver mail to mbox/maildir. Then dovecot can show those mailboxes to > >> client. > >> > >> -- > >> Veiko > >> > >> > > > > > > -- > > Phil Howard KA9WGN - ka9...@gmail.com > > > -- Phil Howard KA9WGN - ka9...@gmail.com
